We are excited to announce Nourishing Reciprocity: Artists in Collaboration. “Our new interdisciplinary project is in the beginning phase, stemming from a relationship of reciprocity and gratitude as artist Hope Sandrow has shared well over 6,000 of her Padovana flocks hens eggs with the Shinnecock tribal community,” according to Kelly Dennis. Shinnecock tribal member citizens and artist siblings Kelly Dennis and Jeremy Dennis delivered Hope’s chickens eggs to their tribal community at the emergency food tent during the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to share eggs with the tribal community today.

This collaboration will bring a new communal resource of chickens and eggs to the Shinnecock Reservation at Ma’s House. Here, a new Padovana chicken flock born from Hope’s flock inhabiting her open air studio, will live within a sustainable art installation to be created by Ma’s House founder artist Jeremy Dennis and his partner, fellow artist Brianna Hernandez Baurichter. With Hope sharing knowledge and experience of open air studio, a living record of climate change and restoration; a micro environment reflective of important aspects of macro environments within the Shinnecock Indian Contact Period Village Fort Critical Environmental Area. The genesis was a Chance Encounter (Surrealist doctrine of objective chance) of Hope with a Padovana white cockeral (2006) on ancestral lands. His appearance (chance or destined?) portents of things to come: chickens named (2018) a defining species of the Anthropocene, symbolic of the transformation of the biosphere.